![]() ![]() Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves. That is the end goal of every patriarchal culture. She lives in Florida with her wife and three children. Women who are best at this disappearing act earn the highest praise: She is so selfless.Ĭan you imagine? The epitome of womanhood is to lose one's self completely. An activist and thought leader, Glennon is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropyraising over 25 million for women, families, and children in crisis. So we do not honor our own bodies, curiosity, hunger, judgment, experience or ambition. They convinced us to be afraid of ourselves. We were taught to believe that who we are in our natural state is bad and dangerous. We weren't born distrusting and fearing ourselves. The lesson of Adam and Eve - the first formative story I was told about God and a woman - was this: When a woman wants more, she defies God, betrays her partner, curses her family and destroys the world. If twenty women come forward and say, "He did it," and he says, "No, I didn't," they will believe him while discounting and maligning us every damn time.Īnd religion, sweet Jesus. ![]() The legal system proves to us again and again that even our own memories and experiences will not be trusted. ![]()
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